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‘Gunplay’ in the Wild West
This week sees the publication of my new book, Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West. The main characters are Butch Cassidy and the...
Reflections on the Geopolitical Roots of U.S. Student Loan Debt
The emergence of student loan debt in the late 1960s can be situated within a broader shift towards neoliberal governance, which relies on market incorporation as a means of...
Schley: The Navy Man Who Saved Greely
Commander Winfield Scott Schley (4th from left) and men who rescued Greely Expedition survivors (Public domain, Wikimedia Images) In 1881, Cdr. Winfield Scott Schley was at the...
The Pinkertons in Myth and History
William A. Pinkerton with railroad special agents Pat Connell (left) and Sam Finley (right) from the Library of Congress. Even if you’ve only watched a handful of “Wild West”...
I Am a Respectable Person
by Jack Kelly Elizabeth Jennings Graham. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. “We are not going back,” is a refrain heard in this year’s election campaign. We like to think of...
Major League Baseball’s Historical Quest to Entice Middle- and Upper-Class Fans to the Park
Baseball has never been particularly popular in the United Kingdom, despite numerous efforts by American businesspeople over the last nearly 150 years to make it so.
Denial, Distraction, Doubt, and Deceit on the Road to Scientific Disinformation
To this day, many in the United States recall the 1950s as the height of the era of âbetter living through chemistry.â[1] But it was also the moment when much of the public...